Facebook Stories reveals 150M daily viewers and tests first ads

After 14 months of silence since launching , Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone. And now it's time to earn some money off it. Facebook Stories will start testing its first ads today in the U.S., Mexico and Brazil.
They're 5- to 15-second video ads users can skip, and while there's no click-through or call to action now, Facebook plans to add that in the coming months. Advertisers can easily extend their Instagram Stories ads to this new surface, or have Facebook automatically reformat their News Feed ads with...Read more ...

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